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The hallway was chaotic as Byron examined Candice’s injuries, which were critical to the chest.

He instructed the nurse, “Bandage it and proceed to surgery immediately.”

“Professor Wilson…” Candice called out breathlessly.

Byron moved closer to the stretcher and leaned forward.

“I’m here,” he reassured.

“I have medical insurance…” She was really struggling to speak as her voice kept trailing off.

“At home.”

He frowned and checked her temperature to find that she wasn’t running a fever.

“Rufus hit me,”

Byron sulked.

She grabbed his hand and said, “My mom can’t afford to be

scared, so I’ll hide it from her for now, and I’ll pay for it myself… For the settlement, please make some concessions. and later I’ll.:

His former trauma was suddenly triggered.

“Why are you still considering the issue of money at this juncture?”

Candice froze and closed her eyes.

She was half conscious.

Byron also realized that he had been too harsh.

She didn’t mean it the way Vicky did.

Vicky wouldn’t care about this money anyway. She had the means to get money out of men’s pockets.

He suppressed his emotions and said, “I’ll settle for you.”

Candice’s eyelids twitched.

The stretcher was sent into the operating room, and Byron went straight to the orthopedic department next door to get Samson Barnes, who was the leading expert in this field.

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“Doctor Samson.”

Samson was almost off duty and was writing some medical records.

He looked up and asked, “Doctor Byron, what’s the matter?”

“There’s a patient in the emergency room with a fractured sternum.”

“Doctor Miles is taking my shift at four and he’ll schedule the surgery.”

Byron didn’t say a word and stood in place.

Samson immediately understood what he wanted.

“Male or female?”

“Female, 24 years old.”

“Your girlfriend?”

“Pretty much.”

Samson got up and said, “I’ll perform the surgery myself.”

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“I owe you one, I’ll pay you back sometime.”

He stopped and said, “Doctor Byron, gossip is scary. My wife and I are going to have a second child, and I’m not infertile.”

No sexual impotency issues in his forties.

It didn’t seem believable.

When a man is of a certain age, they are bound to be plagued with issues in that area, more or less.

Some were just too prideful to admit.

The urology and male fertility department was known to be the gossip warehouse of the hospital.

Harry knew about every single colleague who had gone to other hospitals to seek treatment for piles or other male sexual health issues.

He would then go on to tease them at work.

As a result, Harry had set the record of receiving six free meals in a day as “hush fee”.

“Come to me for treatment. I’ll keep it strictly confidential,’ Byron said to Samson before leaving.

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The next day at noon, the first thing Candice did when she woke up was to ask, “Where’s Patrick?”

She clearly remembered the scene where Rufus smashed the chair into him.

He had flung it with all his might.

Harry clucked his tongue and said, “Have you developed feelings for Patrick after surviving an ordeal together?”

Candice said, “Patrick’s petty.”

“Doctor Byron is even more petty than he is.”

Harry moved to the side while Byron walked past the door, followed by a group of interns who, by the looks of it, were visiting her after checking in with the men’s ward on the seventh floor.

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The rich white sunlight shone on him, as clear as snow and giving off a unique vibe.

“She’s concerned about that punk, Patrick,” Harry jested.

Byron said with an expressionless face, “He’s got a fractured scapula, but it’s not life-threatening.”

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After that, he walked away.

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Candice thought that this time, Patrick would definitely extort her to no end.

After all, it was her ex-husband who was the cause of the accident.

The most important thing was that Patrick didn’t take advantage of her yet was implicated by her. He definitely couldn’t take it lying down.

Sure enough, a battle was started that day.

Patrick’s wife came to the hospital aggressively, cursing all the way from the elevator to the ward. If the nurses hadn’t stopped her, she would have slapped Candice.

Something so serious cropped up right after they got remarried. Who could tolerate that?

Knowing that she was in the wrong, Candice let her scold her without retorting.

The more she scolded, the more furious she became and decided to start getting physical. The family members on the first floor stood in the aisle to watch and the nurses on duty were all alarmed. Someone even informed Byron.

When he arrived at the scene, Patrick’s wife pushed two nurses who were trying to stop the fight and was about to pull Candice’s hair.

Byron stopped her in mid-air and held her firmly in place.

Patrick’s wife glowered as the nurses said, “This is Doctor Byron.”

“How is this any

this any of your business?”

“You are disturbing the rest of the patients and I, as a doctor, have the right to stop you.”

She was flaming with fury as she hollered, “My husband has. a broken arm and I’m going to settle the score with her!”

“The police will intervene in the dispute, or you can leave the hospital to settle it. No fighting is allowed in the hospital.” Byron let go of her and continued, “Besides, she and your husband, are both victims.”

Patrick’s wife stomped her feet and said, “Victim? If she didn’t seduce my husband, how could he have been attacked by her ex-husband?”

“I was once on the same flight as your husband for a business trip, and as far as I can tell, the party with the ill intentions, seemed to be Mr. Patrick.”

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She twitched with anger and retorted, “Do you have proof?”

Byron dusted off the hem of his white coat and said, “Do you have proof that she seduced your husband?”

Patrick’s wife was instantly left speechless.

He inclined his head and instructed the nurse, “Take her to ward 8.”

“I’ll file a complaint against you! Your last name is Wilson, huh?” she hollered.

He introduced himself with great composure, “Byron Wilson from the male fertility and urology department.”

The moment he turned to leave, he glanced at Candice, who was hiding under the covers like a frightened moose.

Feeling a heartache, Byron walked over and said to her “It’s over now.”

She curled up and called out, “Professor Wilson.”

Her aggrieved sobbing was filled with a tinge of sultriness.

That was what she was like when she cried.

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It wasn’t intentional but her voice was nasally and coquettish,

Vicky was more of a dominatrix.

Candice may sound pretentious at times.

In fact, she was very capable and could take hardship well. She also had great judgment and managed to support Rufus single-handedly in his job, helping him get promoted from project team leader into the company’s vice president, tripling his annual salary.

Because of her innate characteristics, her colleagues disliked. her when she first joined the company, including Monica, who took the lead in alienating her and calling her an unreliable, innocent-looking, but bit chy and pretentious vixen.

Later, when she learned that she was devoted to Rufus and ignored all male colleagues, Monica gradually changed her mind.

“I’m scared.”

Byron looked down at her from above, “What are you afraid of?”

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She kicked back the covers and asked, “Am I disfigured?”

He reached out and covered the sheets over her again.

“No,” he answered.

“Will it leave a scar?”

“Yes.”

With one word from Byron, Candice stopped talking and buried herself in her pillow as she started sobbing incessantly.

He pulled out the pillow, revealing her pale face.

“I wasn’t pretty to begin with and with the scar, I’ll be even uglier.”

Byron frowned, pressing the back of his hand against her cold and smooth cheek.

“You’re not that ugly.”

She knew how to flirt and win the hearts of men. However, she was meek, gentle, innocent, and soft.

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Those were her strengths.

There were lots of pretty women but very few had her characteristics.

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Byron was pondering about something when he drifted off slightly and his gaze fell on her scar.

“You’re not allowed to look. I’m disfigured now,” Candice said while covering her face.

He was losing his patience and he snapped, “Even if your don’t have that scare, those who don’t like you won’t like you all the same.”

For example, Rufus. However, he wasn’t too blunt about it, lest he agitated her.

Candice turned her head and moved too much, causing her sternum to be stretched, leaving her in severe pain.

“What if I’m disfigured then?” she asked in a trembling voice.

“You’re not,” he said after a moment of silence.

She thought Byron would tease her and say, “They’ll like you even less.”

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Byron lacked humor and was nothing but cold and aloof.

He would occasionally be a little warm and friendly.

“Don’t let your imagination run wild.”

Byron walked out of the ward and went to the top floor for a smoke break.

Before long, Harry pushed open the rooftop door and said, “Candice’s famous again.”

He didn’t turn around and instead, leaned against the railing.

“It has nothing to do with her.”

“Nothing to do with what?”

“I’m the one who did her.”

Harry bit down on a cigarette and borrowed Byron’s lighter.

“You’re a handsome guy who’s quite the gentleman. Can you not sound so blunt? Can’t you say that you courted her?”

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Byron threw out the lighter and said, “I’m not really courting her. We’re just trying to work things out.

“She’s famous this time, not because of a scandal. Rather, it’s because she said that she has a medical insurance,” Harry said, leaning against the wall after lighting his cigarette.

“Quite a few single and divorced doctors in the emergency. department want her number.”

“By the way, Doctor Ralph, the ophthalmologist who has been widowed for eighteen years, also intends to contact her.”

Annoyed to hear that, Byron turned away.

Harry flicked his cigarette ash and said, “Pretty women who know how to live life are rare these days.”

Candice was indeed quite eye-catching. She just lacked confidence after being played and emotionally abused by Rufus for a long time.

If she was not attractive, he wouldn’t have slept with her that night.

Even Percy, the otherworldly man only wanted fame and fortune, couldn’t help but intervene in her affairs and take

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She was better behaved than Vicky but she was just as popular with men as Vicky was.

While he was thinking about Percy, that man had already sat down on the couch and was taking off his suit.

“Is it serious?”

“Mr. Percy,” Candice called while lying down.

“Call me Percy.”

He was always adamant about what Candice called him.

She took a deep breath and winced in pain before answering, “It’s not serious.”

“Not serious?”

She had already turned pale.

However, Percy knew that her skin was fair and thin so she would mark easily.

He bumped into her in this hospital that time, too, and the

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blood on her forehead was brighter than vermillion at that time.

Percy was a man after all and he secretly imagined the seductive way her blood looked on her flawless skin.

The nurse entered the ward at that moment, and upon seeing that it was a stranger, she asked, “Are you her family?”

“No…”

“Is there an issue?” Percy beat her to it.

“Please sign here.”

He took the document, which was a set of instructions for post-op notices.

Percy signed it and handed it back. “Please.”

He was polite, courteous, and very gentlemanly.

No woman wouldn’t adore a mature man with a powerful aura. The nurse blushed and smiled.

After the door was closed, Candice asked, “Why did you sign it?”

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“Mrs. Scott should not be aware of your injury yet. Since I’m feigning as your family member, I’ll just sign it.”

Candice was stunned, not expecting Percy to know her so well.

She was wearing a loose hospital gown, and the buttons were not tied properly since it was warm. The fabric at her chest was loose and Candice struggled to sit up while her skin was exposed between the gaps of the buttons.

Percy hung the suit on the backrest and went over to help her. “Are you feeling uncomfortable?”

She clutched her lapel to cover her flesh. “No.”

He got the message and casually looked away. “Do you want an apple?”

He bought a bouquet of flowers, a basket of fruit, and some health supplements.

Percy walked further away with his back facing her while she took the opportunity to fix her clothes.

“Who told you about my hospitalization?”

“I went to your office in the morning, and your colleague

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Monica said that you and the male boss sacrificed for love.”

“What?” Candice asked with a frown.

“Is that true?” Percy asked with a chuckle.

“Not true.”

Monica had good intentions to egg Percy on by creating a false sense of crisis.

However, she misjudged the situation.

Candice didn’t like Percy at all.

However, the friendship between a man and a woman can easily become ambiguous.

Holding the fruit knife, Percy peeled an apple for her and said, “I didn’t take it seriously.”

Candice inadvertently glanced at those hands of Percy’s and thought that they were beautiful.

His strong and taut veins were also clearly defined. Him. holding a silver knife was simply a visual pleasure.

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Byron’s hands were calloused while Percy’s were not. They were smooth and clean.

“Monica wants me to find a good man and sometimes runs her mouth without thinking. Don’t take it to heart.”

“How about yourself then?”

“I’m not eager.”

Percy assented indifferently.

A moment later, he asked casually, “Is there a man that you like?”

After a moment of hesitation, Candice said, “No.”

Byron wasn’t considered a lover.

Even though he and Vicky were done, she still didn’t feel secure about it because of their messy ties.

Candice can accept that a man has an ex, but she couldn’t accept it if his feelings for her were too strong.

It was too lethal and Vicky had too much of an impact on Byron.

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“Is it him?”

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She didn’t dare to mention it voluntarily, but Percy did ask.

“Doctor Byron is your…”

“My half-brother.”

Candice was expecting it, but still no less shocked.

“You two don’t get along well?”

“There’s a feud between us and he hates me,” Percy said frankly.

She was a bit at a loss and didn’t know to reply.

“Did he mention any of that to you?”

Candice shook her head and said, “Things between him and me is not what you think.”

She couldn’t go on.

Percy laughed and asked, “Still haven’t said yes to him?”

After a second of silence, he said, “His feelings haven’t

reached such an extent yet.”

For now, Byron was adopting the usual rebound tactic of many men to get over a love affair by diverting his passion. for Vicky to another woman.

“He’s not the one for you.”

Candice remained silent.

“I’m sorry,” Percy said while staring at her.

“I understand,” she said with a smile.

He cut a small piece of apple and fed it to Candice.

Uncomfortable, she said, “I’ll do it myself.”

“Be careful of your wounds.”

Just as Candice raised her hand, her ribs nearly cracked and she had to put it down. With the apple in her mouth, her ears started burning.

Percy stared at her and said, “You get shy easily.”

“I’m not used to it.”

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He patiently wiped the juice from the corner of Candice’s lips.

“Aren’t women meant to be spoiled?”

Logically speaking, she was not as familiar with Percy as she was with Byron, and their relationship was far more distant.

However, Candice felt that their relationship was moving more uncontrollably towards a peculiar situation.

In contrast to Byron who openly flirted, Percy was doing it subtly.

It was hidden, deep, stable, and under his control.

Candice was desperately trying to pull back while Percy pushed forward constantly.

Although she had not experienced many men, she could judge them pretty well.

Rufus was her only failed attempt.

Moreover, this man, too, must have been conditioned.

He was domineering at work, resolute with his means, and gentle in front of women with strong devotion.

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At first she thought that it was his own upbringing, but it was obvious that Percy was not a ladies’ man who just goes around charming everyone.

“Aren’t you going back to the office?”

He glanced at his watch and said, “Yeah, I’m leaving now. I’ll see you again sometime.”

Then, he stood up.

“You don’t have to come if you’re busy.”

Percy slung his blazer on inside the crook of his arm and said, “Candice, why won’t you accept the necklace?”

She pursed her lips and said, “A man giving a woman a necklace…”

“Of course I understand the significance,” he interjected.

Candice looked up to make eye contact with him.

Percy grinned and said solemnly, “Was it too sudden?”